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δύσαυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσαυλος δύσαυλον

Structure: δυσαυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: au)lh/

Sense

  1. inhospitable

Examples

  • καὶ φθέγμα καὶ ἀνεμόεν φρόνημα καὶ ἀστυνόμουσ ὀργὰσ ἐδιδάξατο καὶ δυσαύλων πάγων ὑπαίθρεια καὶ δύσομβρα φεύγειν βέλη παντοπόροσ· (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 21)
  • εἰ δὲ σὺ τοιούτοισ τότ’ ἐνέπνεεσ, οὐκ ἂν Υἅγνισ τὴν ἐπὶ Μαιάνδρῳ κλαῦσε δύσαυλον ἔριν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 266 1:1)
  • Δυσαύλου τέ ἐστιν ἐνταῦθα, ὡσ εἴρηταί μοι, μνῆμα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 14 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. inhospitable

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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